What is the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act?

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or “Superfund”), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), provides a comprehensive scheme which outlines the rights and responsibilities of parties involved in actual or threatened releases of hazardous substances. CERCLA’s remedial action program covers inactive hazardous waste facilities and is often seen as a complement to RCRA’s corrective action program for active hazardous waste facilities. CERCLA response actions, consistent with the national contingency plan (NCP), can take the form of either short-term “removal” actions (for releases or threatened releases requiring immediate response) or long-term “remedial” actions (for releases or threats of releases that are serious but not immediate threats to human health or the environment). The federal Superfund provides the government and private parties with the financial means to take such response actions.

How Can Stephens & Stephens Can Help?

Over the past 20 years, the attorneys at Stephens & Stephens have represented clients identified as potentially responsible parties (PRPs) and PRP groups in many CERCLA matters. We are able to bring corporations faced with CERCLA liability a strong, comprehensive understanding of all stages of the CERCLA process, including new and emerging issues such as soil vapor intrusion and brownfields.

Our CERCLA Legal Services Include:

Communicating with Federal and State Agencies

Preparing and Coordinating Responses to 104(e) Requests

Assembling and Organizing PRP Groups and Committees

Negotiating Consent Orders

Interviewing/Hiring Firms for Site Investigation and Remediation

Identifying Additional PRPs

Negotiating and/or Litigating Shares of Recalcitrant Parties

Negotiating and Allocating Costs and Expenses Among Participating PRPs

Locations We Service:

Stephens & Stephens has represented PRPs at many sites in Western, Central, and Upstate New York, including:

Broome County:

Tri-City Barrel Company

Chenango County:

Novak Farms

Solvent Savers

Erie County:

Bern Metal/Universal Metals

Cherry Farm

ENRX, Inc.

Envirotek

Pfohl Brothers Landfill

River Road

Roblin Steel

Wide Beach

Genesee County:

Byron Barrel

Monroe County:

Sweden 3 – Chapman

Rolling Plains Development

Niagara County:

Booth Oil Company

Frontier Chemical – Royal Avenue

Frontier Chemical – Pendleton

Lockport City Landfill

Solvent Chemical

Oneida County:

Ludlow’s Sand and Gravel

Onondaga County:

Onondaga Lake

Abandoned Pompey Solvent Center

Brighton Avenue Landfill

Clay Town Landfill

General Motors – Inland Fisher Guide

Ley Creek – PCB Dredgings

Tripoli Landfill

Oswego County:

Clothier Site

Fulton Terminals Site

Holbrook Property

Irwin Property

Pollution Abatement Services (PAS) – Mexico Milk Plant

Pollution Abatement Services (PAS) – Main Site

Volney Landfill

Seneca County:

Tantalo Landfill

St. Lawrence County:

Central Foundry

Minerals Processing

Sealand Restoration

St. Lawrence-Grasse River-Massena Area

Waste Stream, Inc.

Stephens & Stephens has also represented PRPs at sites in New Jersey, including:

Jones Industrial Services (J.I.S.) Landfill

Lower Passaic River Study Area (LPRSA)

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